(Janis, sorry for e-mailiing just for you on the first time.)
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 8:15 AM, Janis Voigtlaender
<voigt at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de> wrote:
> That is of course true (and was the topic of heated discussion with my
> fourth grade math teacher), but does not explain 2.5 -> 2.
If you round to odd instead of round to even, then 4.5 rounds to 5,
which would may need rounding again and introduce double rounding
errors. For a simple example,
2.45 -> 2.4 -> 2
2.45 -> 2.5 -> 3
The Wikipedia article that was linked in this thread talks about this
problem as well.
--
Felipe.